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Edwin Elisha James is an Evangelist whose commitment to preach wherever the Lord leads him has fructified in bringing hundreds of souls to the Lord - a dream and a desire that he has harboured for the longest time!

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Baptismal Truths

> The Baptism of John -  Repentance

Mark 3:6

Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians  how they might kill Jesus.

> The Baptism of the Cross – Judgement

Luke 12:50

But I have a baptism  to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed

> The Baptism of the Spirit – Unity

1 Corinthians 12:13

 For we were all baptized  by one Spirit  so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free —and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

> The Baptism of Believers – Identification

Romans 6:1-7

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

  What shall we say, then?  Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?    By no means! We are those who have died to sin;  how can we live in it any longer?   Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized  into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?   We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death  in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead  through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

    For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.    For we know that our old self  was crucified with him  so that the body ruled by sin  might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin —   because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

> Believers are the subjects

Acts 2:41

 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number  that day.

Acts 8:12

But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God  and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized,  both men and women.

> Burial is the meaning

Romans 6:4

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Colossians 2:12

 having been buried with him in baptism,  in which you were also raised with him  through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

> Two examples

Matthew 3:16

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened,  and he saw the Spirit of God  descending like a dove and alighting on him.

Acts 8:38

And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.

[Message No: 6245]

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